Radius-rod.



EH 6 "I E. HOLVERSTOTT & A. HATCHER.

RADIUS ROD.

APPLICATION FILED DEC.8. 1915.

Patented June 13, 1916.

Fl 5 l FIE E of (loos and Stilt-o of lh'ugon ELMEB HOLVERSTO'ET AND ARCHIE HATCHER, OF MCKINLEY. OREGON .RADIUS-RQD.

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Specification of Aoyiication filed Ilsoamber 1 'u '14 whom it may concern:

llo it known that ri'iQIlC-nmni liomiansro'rr and l'hufuir, l'lii'ruiin iilllxllillh of tho iiZliZiHl Slates, residing at h'loh'iuioy in the country have inventor! curtain now unil useful. inigirorunieuts in lhulius-lioils; and Wu do lioroby ilcclurir the following to ho it full, clear, mail oxnct do suriptiou of tho invention :iiijll as will on zihlo others skilloil in tin. nrt o which it uppurtains to nnlo: and use the slum.

This invention relates to radius rods usod on motor cars; and it consists in providing an ndjustnbl s. end portion or portii'uis for attachment to the bars, of the radius real so that broken riuliiw rods can bu nizulu service-- able, as hrroiimitmfully (his i'ihcil zinil claimed.

in this drawings, Figurii .l is it plan riow of i'zuliHH rod in! n motor a'nr pro-villa with an :uljushiblo mail portion :HU()l(lill; to this inwiitiou. l 'ig. J ir; a FililQ view of the mid portion drawn to a: lzirggirr sirislu zin-zl turuoil urouiul our iillkll'llfl from th p itiun shown in Fig. 1. Fig. :5 is 1H! mid now (ii the sorkut of tho zul iustnblo (illll portion,

The l'illllilfi IOti (MiZiWl of two bars :irruugml at an mute angle to rzarh other. At one rnil thorn: two lnilka arr: wieliluil to getlwr :uul proviihul with a stem 23 h; ing :1. ball 1 which forms a portion ol' :1 bull 22ml socket joint of approved (C(illSiJ'H-L ion. .kt lhvir dim-oiiuvctoil owls tho-two i ()I'(ll uarily have Siil'CW-thl'lil lfll stmur; which are 2lII1!I!.' '((l at an angle to ill: bars 2 niul purnllvl to tho xtum 3 and to r m-h other. Similar nuts (3 :iru provided on tho Sirius a? for swuriug the lililllli-l rod in plzwc. Finch liar is th n-roll and is lhirkest zit thvv cull next to its Mom 5 and an abutment shoulder 7 is l'uriuml :ll'OlHHl its stem 5 Tim jolts null jarsto which the motor car is subjw-tvil frequently onusothv stems 5 to lu'i-nk zit llushoiililvrs 7, and in orilor to llliilfl lhv radius llHl $4l'\'l(lllllli :uijuotablo mul portions or shuns H) are pro-shied. lhich HlNH il is srrowthrmulmi :uu'l i:--' prit'viilml with :i fuslvuiug Hill ii.

I Tho siriu H is pro'viihwl with :i Cylindrical Patented June '13, 191 6' 8.1915. Serial No. 85,?85.

Letters Patent,

tapering socket formed of two halves 14 and 1 3 lmrin' iluugc 18 and bolts 19 for clamping: tho (mm; on the radius rod. The socket portion 14 has a laterally projecting flap 15 :11} mm, Hill, which overlaps the broken end of tho l'lilllilH rod and the axis of the socket, and (hiatriu ill projects from this flap, and is nrrmigcil ELL an angle to and upon the axis ol' the socket so that it may take the same position us the original stem and engage, with the same pa rt. The flap 15 forms at shoulder l? at the base of the stem 10 whirh svrros as an abutment similar to the original shoulder 7.

The hall socket ll is arranged at an angle with its stem 10 to correspond with the angle of tho bar to which it is to be attached. The other ha f of tho SUCliUt is formed of a cover plate 16, and this two halves of the socket haw: Si flillltl' llzuigos. 1S and bolts 19 for clamping the socket on the larger end portion oi (mu ol the hairs The socket is tnpizrcil to correspond with the taper of the bar, zuul it :uliustwl longitudinally on the lmr lwl'ore buing: clamped to it.

A single adjustable end portion can be 115ml for either bur which happens, to break. if ilosiroih 310th bars :2 can be provided with those :uljusinblo cud portions in the first pluriuuuil whom :i slrm ll) is broken another adjustable mul portion can be substituted for the our with tlw broken stem.

\Yashurs 1h" may be used on the unbroken stem to cquzilizw the lrngth of the stems.

An end portion for repairing it broken riulius KOll. roinprising' it socket portion l'ormwl in halves and adapted to be clamped around the broken 0nd of the rod, one of the suiii halves having :1 laterally projecting lhip 'lllt'll overlaps the axis of the said sorkol mul which is PI'UN'lllCd with a screw-- thrvzuloil stem arranged upon :1 prolongntion of tinuxis of tho socket and at an angle to llusziiil axis:

lu triiliiuony win-roof we lures.

nllix our signa- ELM E ll HOLVERSTOTT. A RC1 i115 E'IATCHER. 

